Job Description
Sanctuary, a world leader in building AI-based control systems for humanoid robots, is looking to hire a skilled and motivated Junior Mechanical Designer, Robotics to join our Hardware team. Reporting to the Mechanical Design Team Lead, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of the design and implementation of the robotics and mobility systems within our general-purpose robots.
As Sanctuary's Junior Mechanical Designer, Robotics, you'll be a valued part of the team as you design novel and bleeding edge systems with 3D design tools, develop prototypes, perform simulations, manage fabrication and participate in assembly and construction. You will be pivotal in building our next generation robotic hardware, and maximizing current system performance.
Our Success Criteria
- Bring hands-on experience as you design and optimize robotic parts and assemblies in Onshape Design with the ability to optimize actuators, robotics arms, and lift mechanisms (e.g. hands, arms, face, neck, and torso)
- Gain career experience as you conceptualize and design novel actuator topologies, synthesize low-level design requirements from high-level functional requirements, and solve robotics-specific research and engineering problems as they arise
- Expand your technical experience as you use simulation and modeling to optimize the design of innovative mechanisms with tight packaging constraints, implement design improvements to existing parts, and 3D print, assemble, and test prototypes
- Achieve team-wide visibility as you work with other team members to create documentation and assembly instructions for your designs, draft drawings and manage the machining process, and design equipment to improve the speed and efficiency of production/maintenance
- Tap into your mentorship skills as you help technicians with assembly during times of peak production
Your Experience
Qualifications:
- Degree in mechanical engineering, engineering physics, a related technical field or equivalent work experience
- 1+ years of 3D CAD experience
- Experience with the specification and analysis of gears, actuators, bearings, etc.
- Experience with design-automated manufacturing machines, and assembly tools
- Experience with prototyping, robotics, mechatronics, machining, and 3d printing
- R&D experience
- Experience designing complex moving mechanical assemblies
Skills:
- Highly skilled mechanical designer with complex/innovative projects in your portfolio
- You are familiar with all stages of the manufacturing process, engineering drawings, tolerancing, and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
- Comprehensive communication skills; ability to tailor your style to various audiences
- Collaborates well with other members of the team and the project lead to determine the best path forward on various project elements
- The successful candidate will be a proponent of individual personal responsibility for themselves and their teammates
- Above all else, you have a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
- Versatile, enthusiastic, and creative problem solver who is fascinated by the way animals and machines move
- You would rather work on robots than do pretty much anything else
- You plan for and manage deadlines and are detail-oriented
- You're extremely passionate about our mission
Working at Sanctuary AI
Sanctuary AI is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary AI is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status. In 2023, Sanctuary AI moved into a state-of-the-art office facility and has been recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Startup company.
Compensation and Benefits
Sanctuary offers a market-leading compensation package that includes competitive salaries, equity stakes, and a full suite of benefits for permanent employees, encompassing health coverage, paid time off, cutting-edge work facilities, and worksite flexibility by role. Our commitment to fairness ensures that our total compensation consistently surpasses market standards.
About Sanctuary AI
Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary AI is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.
Members of the Sanctuary AI team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.
Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary AI. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time . Any employment agency or professional recruiter ("Agency") that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary AI career site or directly to any Sanctuary AI employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary AI the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary AI's sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.
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